Differences in food and nutrient intakes between Australian‐ and Asian‐born women living in Australia: Results from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health

Abstract

Asian-born women living in Australia show different food and nutrient intakes from Australian-born women, although their diets tend to deviate from typical Asian characteristics and approach a Western diet.

The Alternate Consumption of Quercetin and Alliin in the Traditional Asian Diet Reshaped Microbiota and Altered Gene Expression of Colonic Epithelial Cells in Rats

“…Sub-health, which is a serious threat to public health (Ma et al, 2018), is characterized by the presence of loss of appetite, dyspepsia, intestinal dysfunction, immunity function lessening, mental fatigue, thought disorders, and anxiety (Bunkenborg, 2014;Shi, Zeng, Wang, Wang, & Huang, 2015;Wang, Dai, Guo, & Li, 2011). The Mediterranean diet is a balance diet, high in complex carbohydrates (such as fruits and vegetables) and low in animal fat and protein, and the traditional Asian diet is similar to the Mediterranean one (Liu et al, 2018). The Asian people usually maintain alternate consumption of food components with similar function such as quercetin and alliin.…”

“…The Mediterranean diet includes more plant foods such as vegetables, fruits and nuts, legumes, and unprocessed cereals, but less meat, meat products, and dairy products (Martinez-Lacoba, Pardo-Garcia, Amo-Saus, & Escribano-Sotos, 2018;Trichopoulou et al, 2014). The traditional Asian diet is similar to the Mediterranean due to its high carbohydrate and fiber content and low fat and animal-based protein content (Liu, Hall, Xu, Mishra, & Byles, 2018). But people are used to ingest foods in the Asian diet one after another rather than simultaneously consume them.…”

Food matrix: The influence of tools, training and policies on our nutrition practice

“…In such cultures, new insights into diet–disease relationships are being established. For example, the Western diet, is an eating pattern that is being explored in this issue finding an influence of the diet using a food‐based approach . A cultural shift may have additional impacts for particular groups within the population with Liu et al .…”

“…A cultural shift may have additional impacts for particular groups within the population with Liu et al . finding that Asian‐born women reverted to an increasingly Westernised diet the earlier in their lives they came to Australia . Such cultural shifts can also affect the food security of population groups particularly where a move from one country to another occurs with a sense of urgency.…”

“…finding that Asian-born women reverted to an increasingly Westernised diet the earlier in their lives they came to Australia. 11 Such cultural shifts can also affect the food security of population groups particularly where a move from one country to another occurs with a sense of urgency. A systematic review conducted by Lawlis et al reported that in the last 10 years 139 400 refugees resettled in Australia.…”